Word: tiller
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SCOTT ROEDER, accused killer of Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller, who was gunned down at his Wichita church...
...whose organization, the Vidarbha People's Protest Forum, has championed the region's cotton growers, says that the package has alleviated some of the farmers' distress. But Tiwari says that more government intervention is needed to solve the real underlying problem: a global agricultural market rigged against the small tiller. While the costs of crucial inputs, like fertilizer, have been rising, global prices for cotton are being depressed to an artificially low level by U.S.-government subsidies for its cotton farmers - a one-two punch, he says, that makes profitable farming in Vidarbha practically impossible. "The input prices...
...notion that anyone is now actually in control of this process is an illusion. But to the extent that anyone's hand is on the tiller, it is Reid's. Over the next four weeks, it is Reid who will decide whether to permit votes - and in what order - on amendments that could make the final version look very different from the one approved Tuesday afternoon by the Finance Committee. There will be fights over the lack of a public option in the bill, and efforts to reinstate one. Reid is expecting a battle over the size of the subsidies...
...acknowledges that recent news events may color perceptions of the New Bethel event - the murder of Dr. George Tiller, the shooting at the Holocaust Museum and the fatal shooting of a teen near New Bethel Church - but says they actually strengthen his argument that people who own guns should learn how to use them. Yet he also acknowledges the open-carry controversy has grown uglier than he expected and hinted at personal threats from across the religious-political spectrum. Pagano says the church's insurance carrier, after giving an initial go-ahead, has now told him it cannot insure...
...Good God, do not close this abortion clinic for this reason.' TROY NEWMAN, leader of the antiabortion group Operation Rescue, lamenting plans to shutter Dr. George Tiller's clinic because of Tiller's murder rather than ideological opposition to the practice...